Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.
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Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
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A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
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If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.